Thursday, June 27, 2013

I have made Strawberry Muffins and It is very soft,moist and so tasty since it has strawberry puree. Here I have made it for Potluck event paired with my partner Sorna of Sorna's Collections and I had made it the same exact of her recipe and replaced with the cake flour.It is very soft,super fluffy and will be liking by your kids since it has chopped strawberries inside the muffin.It is so delicious!!!

You can also join the potluck event by Jagruti Madam...Here is the details and It is quite interesting!! Go for it!!!

Preheat the oven to 350 F or 180 C, Line the muffin pan with baking cup papers.

Mix all the wet ingredients such as strawberry puree,egg,oil,vanilla extract.Whisk well.

Add the dry ingredients such as flour,baking powder,baking soda,salt and sugar and mix well.Add it to the wet ingredients as above the step 1.Mix well until it is well incorporated and no lumps are found.

Take 1 Tablespoon of flour as mentioned as above the ingredients as given.Put it into the chopped strawberries and fold gently to make sure the strawberries are covered it with flour.

Add the freshly chopped flour covered strawberries to the flour mixture as given in the step 2.

Bake it for about 20 to 25 Minutes or until the tooth pick comes out clean.Allow it to cool on the cooling rack

Garnish it with powdered sugar or with the help of stencil design on your own and sliced strawberries on the top or as a side.

Wednesday, June 26, 2013

I have been trying vegan recipes since it must be challenging.It is purely vegan and it contains no eggs,non dairy products.It tasted so delicious and also low in calories.Avocado helps to replace with little amount of oil/butter.It gives real taste of avocado when blended together. I have tried and tested at my kitchen.It came out well and I have decided to use vegan frosting too. Go for Vegan!!! Isn't it amazing by saying Vegan cupcakes with vegan frosting!!!!

I have selected the cake batter into half one is plain avocado vanilla batter and avocado chocolate batter.You can use whole avocado chocolate by adding the cocoa powder to the cake batter if you don't want plain avocado vanilla batter.

For Frosting I just used blended avocado without water and added powdered sugar it became thick ones as avocado is really helpful and can be replaced it with butter.

Here are the ingredients I used it.

Ingredients:

1 1/2 Cup All purpose Flour

2 Tbsp Cocoa Powder

2 Tbsp Vegetable Oil

1/4 cup blended Avocado from 1 fruit.

1/4 Tsp salt

1 Tsp Baking powder

1 Tsp Baking soda

1 Cup Sugar

1 Cup water

1 Tbsp Apple Cider Vinegar

1 Tsp vanilla extract

Method:

Sift all the dry ingredients such as flour,baking powder,baking soda and salt in a bowl.Keep aside.

Add the water,vinegar,vanilla extract and oil to the measuring cup or bowl.Whisk lightly.

Add the blended avocado and sugar to the mixing bowl.

Whisk it gently

The mixture gets creamy and smooth and make sure the sugar is done.

Add the step 2 to the avocado sugar mixture. Mix well.

Add the step 1 to it in 2 additions and mix well until it is well incorporated.

The Cake batter is ready.If you don't want to divide then directly add cocoa powder to the avocado flour mixture

If you want to divide the batter into half then Add the cocoa powder to the remaining batter about 1 cup and other 1 cup of plain avocado batter

Plain Avocado cake batter is ready

Chocolate Avocado batter is also ready.

Preheat the oven to 350 F or 180 C.Line the mini baking papers to the mini muffin pan.Pour the tablespoon of batter each chocolate and plain avocado batter.

Bake it for about 20 to 25 mins or until the tooth pick comes out clean.

Allow it to cool.Once cooled,pipe the rosettes avocado frosting to the cooled cupcake.Garnish it with your choice wither by adding choco chips or sprinkles.

For Frosting:

1 Cup Blended Avocado.

2 Cups Powdered Sugar.

1/2 Tsp Vanilla Extract.

Method:

Mix everything to get creamy in texture and must be thicker ones. No water is added.Transfer the frosting to the piping bag with Swirl tip.

Wednesday, June 19, 2013

I am sorry for not posting up recently. I got into some works away from blogging time. Here is the the baking partner's challenge had selected Eclairs by Swathi. It was wonderful making,delicious and my daughter loved it.

Eclairs is a pastry from the french origin.It is same like profiteroles.It was fun doing it.You can add any filling of your choice wither whipped cream,orange custard or chocolate custard.

Thank you Swathi for the wonderful challenge

Here are the ingredients

Ingredients.

I had used very half of the measurements you can follow the full measurements:

For making Choux Pastry:

1 1/4 cups All purpose flour

2 Tablespoons plus of 2 Tsp of sugar

1 Cup water

4 Tablespoons of Butter(unsalted) at Room Temperature

1/4 Tsp Salt.

4 Eggs plus 1 if needed.

I had followed orange pastry custard.

For Filling:

1 1/4 Cups milk

1 Tablespoons of Orange Zest from 2 oranges.

3 Egg yolks

1/4 cup sugar

1 Tablespoon Flour

2 1/2 Tablespoons of corn starch

1 Tablespoon Grand Mariner.I had used 1 Tablespoon of Orange blossom water

Monday, June 10, 2013

I really enjoyed making it as I am so excited as It was mango again..I am totally in love with a fruit Mango.I baked an egg based cake and enjoyed it.Thanks to Home Bakers Challenge by Sangee who suggested this recipe.It is the best combination for chocolate and mango! It worked well.

I made into half and replaced it with oil instead of butter.It is so soft and moist.

Here are the ingredients for Mango Chocolate Cake.

Ingredients:

1 Cup All purpose flour

1 Cup sugar

1 tsp Baking powder

1/2 Tsp baking soda

2 Tablespoons of Hershey's Cocoa powder

2 Eggs

1/2 cup Vegetable / Canola Oil

1/2 cup Mango Puree

2 Tablespoons of Buttermilk

1 Tsp vanilla extract

Method:

Preheat the oven to 350 F or 180 C Use any pan either round or loaf pan or any specialty pan.

Sieve all the flour,baking soda and baking powder together and sift it.

In an electric stand mixer with paddle attachment or hand mixer beat the sugar and oil on low heat and add the mango puree and mix well.

Add the flour mixture in three additions.

Add the vanilla extract and buttermilk to it.

Mix well until it is well incorporated.

Divide the batter into 2 halves.

In that batter add the cocoa powder to it and mix well until it is well coated batter.

Take a spoonful of each batter of mango chocolate to the prepared pan and add the mango batter to it.

Take a bamboo stick and make it a swirled to get marble effect.

Bake it for about 30 to 50 minutes or until the tooth pick comes out clean

Allow it to cool on the cooling rack.

Serve it along with a cup of tea or you can do the icing and decorate the cake as you like.I didn't add anything to the cake except powdered sugar to give a simple look with the help of stencil to look a very simpler one

Thursday, June 6, 2013

Wow I made mysurpa at my home..I had followed my mom's recipe.It is same as exact like Sree Krishna Sweets which is very famous all over Tamil Nadu,India. It is very simple,an aormatic all over my home and bit time consuming. Unlike hard ones it is so soft and so delicious

I has really enjoyed making this and invited over my friends and they loved it. It makes you feel so heavenly and melting in the mouth while eating.It is very soft and so rich in flavor.No preservatives..No food color at all . I feel very happy as I made homemade ones as we miss an Indian sweets as we are staying in abroad.Most will buy Sree Krishna Sweets as it is very rich and delicious in all tastes. Mysurpa is very famous in SKS(Sree Krishna Sweets) for all occasions especially Diwali.It also goes great for Dad's day :)

Enjoy it with your family and friends

Recipe Source : My mom

Ingredients:

You can reduce to half.

1 Cup Besan /Gram Flour

1 cup Sugar

1/2 Cup ghee

1/2 cup oil.(If you want richer in taste) Add ghee instead of oil.

1 Tsp cardamom powder

Method:

Sieve the besan flour 2 times and add 1/4 cup of oil to it. Mix well.

Take a kadai or pan,Add the sugar with water about 1/2 cup and let it boil on medium flame

Make sure the sugar gets dissolved and keep boiling till it reaches the stage with single string thread consistency between the thumb and forefinger.

Heat the ghee and the remaining oil to it on medium high flame till it reaches the smoking point and turn off the low flame.

Pour the oil besan mixture to the sugar mixture and keep stirring continuously to avoid burn.

Pour the hot ghee oil to the besan sugar mixture till you hear the sizzling sound and keep on continue stirring at regular intervals

.Grease the ghee to the round plate or any pan.

Transfer the prepared besan smeared in ghee to the greased plate or round pan.

Spread evenly.

Cut into the desired shapes by using knife while it is warm.

Allow it to cool and cut again to get the desired shapes such as rectangle or square ones.

Wednesday, June 5, 2013

I am very happy that I made very vegan one that is very healthy one!! I missed last month every first and last Thursdays along with group members of Vegan Thursdays !! I made it at the right time..I had chosen Vegan baked treat as want to try very healthy one which is fat free,Egg free and Butter free. I had followed the exact recipe while watching the food channel and Google.

You can replace any fruit of your choice.I added mango and kiwi as I feel it is the nice combination/I replaced it with corn meal and are free from dairy products. It tasted so delicious and flavor of fruits and goes great for kids

Monday, June 3, 2013

am very much sorry for making you all wait. Here the wait
is over!!! I am announcing the roundup of all participants who had linked their
entries in my blog on blog anniversary!!! I must say each and everyone A Big
thank you for your likes, patience and support. It is one of the memorable
events as I got to know about many friends and visiting their blog and it was
so good getting more and more friends. It was fun and getting to know and based
on their interests and recipes and have good bond with each other.

Here I received 67 entries and it was so great seeing and
many thanks to you all who participated. After the rules followed, I had
shortlisted 13 participants and they are qualified for getting a giveaway. Here
are the names in an alphabetical order

I am announcing the online awards to the participants who has submitted and I am very much thankful to you for your efforts

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE AWARDEES FOR THEIR RECIPES. PLEASE GIVE ME YOUR EMAIL ID IN THE COMMENT AREA AND I WILL SEND THE IMAGES TO THE AWARDEES AND GRAB THE AWARD AND DISPLAY IT ON THE LEFT/RIGHT SIDE IN YOUR BLOG!!!!!

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